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'The salesman told me I didn't need to pay a cent.'

DEFINITION: n. The type of headache you get from buying too many things with your credit card. Note: Symptoms do not usually appear until the following month.v. To buy yourself a huge credit card headache.

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Plastipain

Created by: mkbransford

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Spendzomenia

ohwtepph

Created by: ohwtepph

Pronunciation: spend-zoh-preh-nya

Sentence: The spendzomenia was debilitating. She had to go through resylum [asylum and rehab rolled into one] for 2 years to let her boyfriend pay for the credit.

Etymology: schizophrenia + spend so many

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Debtache

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: det-ake

Sentence: When she got the credit card bill, she went into lamentstrual syndrome and developed a paymentdoozy of a debtache.

Etymology: debt, headache

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COMMENTS:

I was *this* close to stealing your word. - Clayton, 2007-07-04: 12:06:00

You stole my credache! That's what I get for sleeping in. - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-04: 13:56:00

drunk yet Purple or high - it is the 4th of July - fireworks? - which reminds me of a song "Sky rockets in flight. Afternoon delight. Afternoon delight" - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-04: 15:54:00

Well Jabber, ya cursed me twice. Now I have a song stuck in my head to accompany my sinus headache. Rained all day here. It's only 60 degrees. The highlight of my day was yanking up a garlic bulb that's the size of an onion. I may have to find a site to post a pic. (cracking open a beer in honor of the Starland Vocal Band) - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-04: 17:33:00

Way to go purple - happy 4th of July - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-04: 19:22:00

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Debtache

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: det - aik

Sentence: After her Sunday spending spree, Nancy came home with a splitting debtache. Good thing that she had purchased ten bottles of Tylenol on sale. When she received the bill, she finished off the other nine bottles.

Etymology: debt, arche, play on headache

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Plasticgraine

Created by: MisUndrstd

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Credithead

Created by: LMR1991

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Goinnustaboutmony

Created by: cassandra1315

Pronunciation: goin-nut-tabou-tmon-y

Sentence: he was goinutaboutmony.

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Sellebralhemorrhage

Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: sell/ee/brall/hem/or/aj

Sentence: My bank account suffered a sellebralhemorrahage after my last shopping spree.

Etymology: cerebral hemorrhage + sell

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Bankruptalgia

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: bankrupt-al-gee-a

Sentence: In a fit of pique, Morgan went on a shopping expedition with the corporate credit card purchasing a fleet of vehicles, upgrading PCs for all the staff and treating them all to a long liquid lunch. In addition to their hangovers, they also suffered bankruptalgia the next month when the company went broke and they all lost their jobs.

Etymology: bankrupt + algia (pain) - inspired also by the rupture of a blood vessel in an aneurism

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COMMENTS:

Anything with "-algia" in it gets my vote. But don't hold me to that. - Clayton, 2007-07-04: 12:04:00

Hey Clayton - there are 3 definitions today with algia in them - petaj's sounds the most severe though - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-04: 15:46:00

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Shoppang

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: shop/pang

Sentence: A shoppang set in with the arrival of my MasterCard bill in the mail.

Etymology: shoppang - shop + pang (a sudden feeling of mental, or emotional distress)

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Comments:

petaj petaj - 2007-07-04: 03:45:00
Sounds debititating!

petaj petaj - 2007-07-04: 03:45:00
Oops, that was meant to be a comment on credache!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-07-16: 00:05:00
Today's definition was illustrated by Franke James. Thank you Franke. ~ James